Word problems with decimals

Difficulty Starter · Set p41b1j

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1
A bottle holds 1.5 liters. 2 of them are poured into a jug. How many liters are in the jug?
2
A bottle holds 8.4 liters. 3 of them are poured into a jug. How many liters are in the jug?
3
A bottle holds 9.1 liters. 3 of them are poured into a jug. How many liters are in the jug?
4
A bottle holds 4.2 liters. 2 of them are poured into a jug. How many liters are in the jug?
5
A bottle holds 9.3 liters. 2 of them are poured into a jug. How many liters are in the jug?
6
A bottle holds 2.9 liters. 2 of them are poured into a jug. How many liters are in the jug?
7
A bottle holds 3.3 liters. 2 of them are poured into a jug. How many liters are in the jug?
8
A bottle holds 2.3 liters. 3 of them are poured into a jug. How many liters are in the jug?
9
A bottle holds 9.3 liters. 2 of them are poured into a jug. How many liters are in the jug?
10
A bottle holds 5.4 liters. 3 of them are poured into a jug. How many liters are in the jug?
11
A bottle holds 2.0 liters. 3 of them are poured into a jug. How many liters are in the jug?
12
A bottle holds 2.1 liters. 3 of them are poured into a jug. How many liters are in the jug?
13
A bottle holds 7.2 liters. 3 of them are poured into a jug. How many liters are in the jug?
14
A bottle holds 7.2 liters. 3 of them are poured into a jug. How many liters are in the jug?
15
A bottle holds 2.9 liters. 3 of them are poured into a jug. How many liters are in the jug?
16
A bottle holds 7.1 liters. 3 of them are poured into a jug. How many liters are in the jug?
17
A bottle holds 6.8 liters. 3 of them are poured into a jug. How many liters are in the jug?
18
A bottle holds 2.5 liters. 3 of them are poured into a jug. How many liters are in the jug?
19
A bottle holds 2.4 liters. 3 of them are poured into a jug. How many liters are in the jug?
20
A bottle holds 5.5 liters. 3 of them are poured into a jug. How many liters are in the jug?

What is in this set

The numbers in this set run from 1.2 to 9.9.
Every problem in it will take one step.
A careful solution takes 2 written steps on average.
The mistake this set invites most often, in 100% of the problems: the number of bottles was added to what one holds; each of them holds that much, so the two are multiplied.
Answers are a decimal.

Drawing 240 problems from this page produced 136 different ones, 57% — so a sheet of 20 will come back to a problem you have seen — there are only so many sensible ones of this kind.

The same skill, harder or easier

We would put this in front of a grade 5 class. That is our judgement, not a standard, and it is printed here so you can disagree with it. Everything else we put in that year.